Victoria Bay Asset Management LLC of Alameda, Calif, announced today the launch of the United States Natural Gas Fund LP (UNG), an exchange-traded security based on natural gas.
WisdomTree Investments Inc. is planning to roll out a platform designed to get exchange traded funds into 401(k) plans.
With the acquisition of the parent company due to close in July, the future of the storied Dreyfus Corp. still is uncertain.
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. has teamed with BetterInvesting, a nonprofit investment education organization, to launch the BetterInvesting 100 Index, a listing of the top growth companies that the group's 13,127 investment clubs and 131,556 individual members hold.
PHILADELPHIA — The exchange traded fund industry is tripping over itself to come out with new buzz-worthy products.
NEW YORK — Although exchange traded funds are growing at a torrid rate, with a new offering almost daily, one area where ETF growth has been slow is in retirement accounts.
As exchange traded funds proliferate, ETF producers are getting more aggressive when it comes to pitching product.
As indexes developed specifically for exchange traded funds proliferate, so do concerns about potential conflicts of interest that may exist when index providers reach for extra performance.
The number of companies that rate exchange traded funds — and the methods they use to rate them — is growing.
PHILADELPHIA — WisdomTree Investments Inc. of New York is betting that when it comes to fundamental indexing — indexes weighted not by market capitalization but by other factors — the simpler, the better.
The Vanguard Group Inc., which long has espoused the virtues of buy-and-hold investing, is encouraging hedge funds — which rank among the most frenetic of investors — to invest in its exchange traded funds.
PHILADELPHIA — Real estate investment trusts have outperformed the broad market for seven years, so it isn’t surprising that exchange traded fund providers want in on the action.
The practice of borrowing company stock to manipulate the outcome of company votes has piqued the interest of the Securities and Exchange Commission and has rekindled a debate over stock lending.
PHILADELPHIA — When it comes to new indexes, those that eschew weightings based on market capitalization are all the rage.
